释义 |
smackeroo slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|ˌsmækəˈruː| [f. smacker n.2: see -eroo.] Used in senses of smacker n.2: a coin or note of money; a kiss; a blow. Also as int. Amer. Speech (1942) XVII. 14/1 gives citations of smackeroo ‘dollar’ used on U.S. radio programmes in 1940 and 1941.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §29/2 Something excellent..smackeroo. Ibid. §559/16 Silver dollar..smacker,..smackeroo. Ibid. §702/1 Blow..smackeroo. 1951P. Branch Lion in Cellar ix. 102 She grimps up the ladder... And what happens?.. Smackeroo! 1961S. Price Just for Record viii. 71, I got out the crisp crackling smackeroos and counted out two hundred of them. 1964C. Chaplin Autobiogr. xvii. 300 You're getting the Legion of Honour, kid... That's the wrong colour—that's what they give to school-teachers; you don't get the smackeroos on the cheek for that one. 1977‘E. V. Cunningham’ One-Penny Orange (1978) vii. 90 The price is eight thousand pounds, and the pound was five dollars then, so that makes it forty thousand smackeroos. |